B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – G
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
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B65G 37/00 (2006.01) B65G 47/91 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1318693
ABSTRACT OF DISCLOSURE Disclosed herein is apparatus for transporting battery plate grids which include a lug, which are transported from a vertical orientation in a magazine, and which are pivoted to a horizontal orientation for delivery from the apparatus, the apparatus comprises a frame including a rail supporting a grid lug for movement of the grid lug along the rail from a pick-up station adjacent the magazine, through a transfer station, and to a delivery station, a suction cup, structure on the frame for supporting the suction cup for movement of the suction cup parallel to the rail and from a first position wherein the suction cup engages the grid lug at the pick-up station to a second position spaced from the first position and wherein the grid lug is located at the transfer station, for movement of the suction cup transversely to the rail from the second position to a third position, and thereafter for return movement of the suction cup to the first position, a stripping member engageable with the grid lug for stripping the grid lug from the suction cup in response to movement of the suction cup from the second position to the third position, a valve connected to the suction cup for applying suction at the suction cup during movement of the suction cup from the first position to the second position so as to retain the grid lug in engaged relation with the suction cup and so as thereby to transport the grid in common with movement of the suction cup from the pick-up station to the transfer station, a conveyor on the frame for engaging the grid lug at the transfer station and for transporting the grid along the rail to the delivery station, and a curved element on the frame for engaging the grid during movement thereof along the rail from the pick-up station to the delivery station so as to cause pivotal movement of the grid from the vertical orientation to the horizontal orientation.
601043
Mac Engineering & Equipment Company Inc.
Smart & Biggar
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